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They did that already see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudwatt or Numergy.

France has the CB network for example which I believe still dominates most credit card transactions although it's declining as more and more cards are not co-branded anymore.

This may be a cultural trait too. Erin Meyer in her "Culture Map" Book mentions this idea that every culture approach persuading others differently from theory-first to examples-fi…

There are plenty of dense cities around the world where I'm sure the owners of apartments in the (walkable) center would have enough money to buy a house/McMansion in a nice suburb…

I think Paris has a very good pool of scientists/engineers specialized in AI, it's not just a trend. It's probably linked to the engineering schools ecosystem. It started with AdTe…

Farming is about 10,000 years old so I would say more like 500 generations?

In french: https://cemantix.certitudes.org/

How do you measure success? Do you follow up on these companies later on (acquired or not).

Shameless plug of our internal "sql first" pipeline system powering large scale data sets. https://medium.com/criteo-engineering/scheduling-data-pipeli...

We had an interesting incident where one of our datacenter temperature sensors kept on rising, and operators on site could clearly hear the noise increase of all servers going to m…

A recent study on Germany based upon 35 years of weather data [0] shows that we would need about 24 days worth of storage to cope with this weather conditions. [0] https://twitter.…

It depends how you measure. But my company runs .NET at a much bigger scale (in terms of http requests and infrastructure footprint) than SO and I doubt that we are the only ones.

What makes this even weirder is that all of the FAANG companies are using their own in-house-built platform instead of Kubernetes. Even Google.

This generally happens if the city grows too fast to get enough time to experiment with transit, reorganize and densify neighborhoods entirely over centuries like Paris or London. …

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Clearly running stateful services is hard on something like Kubernetes without delegating volume management to something like ceph. Would something like Mesos resource reservation …

We are using https://github.com/rapid7/github-connector to sync github org users with an internal AD.

As a Gitlab CE user and part of a large company using Gerrit for code reviews I am really surprised that Gitlab does not try to emulate a bit more the various enterprise grade Gerr…

I like that he points to the actual IMF DSA but reading it gives an entirely opposite view point... He clearly picked the convenient graphs.